Improving water quality through California's Clean Beach Initiative: An assessment of 17 projects

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 166, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 95-111

  Dorsey, John H ^a  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach pollution; BMPs; Fecal indicator bacteria; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BEACH POLLUTION; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; BMPS; CALIFORNIA; CONTAMINANT SOURCES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FLOW DIVERSION; MEAN DENSITY; MONITORING STATIONS; PRE-TREATMENT; RECEIVING WATERS; UV-STERILIZATION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL STRATEGIES;

BACTERIOLOGY; BEACHES; EFFLUENTS; FILTRATION; POLLUTION INDUCED CORROSION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

BEACH; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; EFFLUENT; FECAL COLIFORM; FILTRATION; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECAL COLIFORM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADIATION STERILIZATION; SEASHORE; SEWAGE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNITED STATES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIA; BATHING BEACHES; CALIFORNIA; DRAINAGE, SANITARY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SEAWATER; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954141767     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-0987-5     Document Type: Article

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